http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060122/METRO/601220348/1003Judge lifts ban on waste wells
Ruling allows disposal of toxic sludge near Metro Airport over protests of neighboring firm, county.
David Shepardson / The Detroit News
January 22, 2006
ROMULUS -- A federal judge has lifted a restraining order that had barred two deep-injection hazardous waste wells near Interstate 94 and Detroit Metropolitan Airport from operating since Jan. 4.
U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds also rejected a permanent injunction by Sunoco Partners Marketing and Terminals LP to block Bingham Farms-based Environmental Disposal Systems from operating its 4,500-foot-deep wells on a 15-acre site. And she ordered Sunoco to forfeit a $100,000 surety bond it had posted with the court; the money will be given to EDS.
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More than 35 western Wayne County and Downriver municipalities formally opposed the plan.
Opponents have argued the wells would pose regional risks from toxic fumes, hazardous waste spills or even earthquakes. But they have lost repeated battles with state and federal regulators to block the project. They've spent more than $1 million to challenge the venture.
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I did some checking on Judge Edmunds. Poppy Bush appointed her.
http://www.pacegroup.org/edmunds_info.htmBiography
The Honorable Nancy G. Edmunds was appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan bench on February 10, 1992, by President George Bush. From 1978 until the time she took the bench, Judge Edmunds practiced law in the Detroit law firm of Dykema Gossett. A partner since 1984, she was a member of the firm's commercial litigation section and had acquired extensive trial experience in both state and federal courts. Prior to joining Dykema Gossett, Judge Edmunds served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ralph Freeman, U.S. Senior District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Judge Edmunds earned her J.D. from Wayne State University Law School in 1976, graduating summa cum laude. She was editor-in-chief of the Wayne Law Review. In 1971 she earned her Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University of Ithaca, New York, in 1969, graduating cum laude with distinction in all subjects. She was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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